Possible Clues:

• Volume was illuminating, with accompanying note
• French measure
• Some fuel, I treble amount of petrol
• Unit equivalent to one cubic decimetre
• Fluid measure of some banana split reinvented
• What’s in large bottle? Some swill it: retsina!
• Cubic decimetre
• Quantity of wheat, ultimately, in old Italian bread
• Unit central to rising infertility
• Unit of liquid capacity (though not in the UK of beer)